JPH03250861A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent waste of communication cost, electric power to drive a facsimile equipment and recording paper or the like by transferring only incoming information from a specific caller selectively. CONSTITUTION:The facsimile equipment is provided with a reception means 30, a memory means 32, a transmission means 34, a recording means 36, an identification information entry means 38, an incoming call identification information confirmation means 40 and a comparison means 42. Then identification information (ID) for a specific caller is inputted by a party to receive the incoming information or the operator nominated by the party and its own identification information is inserted in a transmission terminal equipment identification signal (TSI) of the incoming information. When the reached identification information and the input identification information are coincident, the incoming information is transferred to the transfer destination and other incoming information is not transferred. Thus, useless transfer is avoided and waste of communication cost, electric cost and cost of recording paper is avoided.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a facsimile machine that is capable of selectively forwarding incoming call information.

[Background of the Invention] Some facsimile machines have a forwarding function that allows incoming call information to be forwarded to a pre-specified forwarding destination.

This transfer function is designed so that when a call is received, no matter who is the calling party, the information is transferred to the transfer destination immediately after the communication is completed.

[Problems that Hikari is intended to solve] Therefore, the incoming call information can be forwarded regardless of the origin, without discriminating the calling party.

Therefore, it has not been possible to selectively transfer only incoming call information from a specific caller.

Furthermore, since there is no selective forwarding function, unnecessary incoming call information, such as direct mail using a facsimile machine, is forwarded to the designated forwarding destination of the receiver.

As a result, communication costs, electricity costs for driving the facsimile machine, recording paper, etc. are wasted.

Therefore, this invention takes these points into consideration,
This paper proposes a facsimile machine that can selectively forward incoming call information.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention includes an identification information input means for inputting the identification information of the other party's machine, a confirmation means for confirming the identification information of the other party's machine from the incoming call information, It has a comparison means for comparing the input identification information and the incoming call identification information, an incoming call information memory means, and an incoming call information sending (ε means), and when the input identification information and the incoming call identification information match, the incoming call information is transmitted. This feature is characterized in that the data is sent to a designated forwarding destination.

[Operation] Identification information (ID) for a specific caller is transmitted by the person who should receive the incoming call information or the operator instructed by the person to receive the incoming call information.
is input.

In the receiving epsilon information, its own identification information is inserted into the sending epsilon terminal identification signal FTSII.

When the incoming identification information matches the input identification information, the incoming call information is transferred to the forwarding destination. No other incoming call information is transferred.

It is possible to select whether or not to print out the incoming call information on the facsimile machine that has received all the received QCJI information.

[Example] Next, an example of a facsimile device according to the present invention will be described in the first example.
This will be explained in detail with reference to the figures below.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing functional blocks of the present invention.

In the figure, 30 is receiving means for incoming call information, 32 is memory means for storing incoming call information, 34 is transmitting means, and 36 is recording means.

38 is an identification information input means for inputting the identification information of the other party's device, and 40 is a confirmation means for confirming the identification information of the other party's device from the incoming call information.

Further, 42 is a comparison means for comparing input identification information (input ID) and incoming call identification information (incoming call ID).

Then, when the input identification information and the terminating 4MtA specific information match, the terminating information is transmitted to the designated transfer destination.

In order to achieve the selective transfer function shown in FIG. 1, the facsimile machine is provided with communication control means 10 as shown in FIG.

In the figure, 11 is a CPU that manages communication control as described above. The above-mentioned arrival (g identification information confirmation means 4)
0. The comparison means 42 are all processed by software and are managed by the CPU 11.

12 is a ROM in which control programs etc. for achieving selective transfer functions are stored, and 13 is an RA for storing image data.
M memory. The RAM 13 also functions as the above-mentioned memory means.

Image data read by the image reading unit and receiving means 3
The received A8 information (image data) is stored in RAM1.
3 or directly to the modem and network control circuit (NCU) 16 via the interface 15. Once upon a time, the modem and network control circuit 16
functions as receiving means 30 and transmitting means 34.

Image data input from the line is sent to this modem and NCU.
16 directly or once stored in the RAM 13, the data is supplied to the recording unit 18 via the interface 17 and recorded. This recording section 18 includes the recording means 36 mentioned above.
is the same as

The telephone number of the destination party is supplied to the display section 20 via the interface 19, and is displayed thereon.

Reference numeral 21 is an operation unit for inputting a telephone number, etc., and 22 is an interface thereof.

Using the operation unit 21, the forwarding destination phone number is specified, and in order to be able to transfer only the incoming call information of a specific caller to the designated forwarding destination, the identification information of the specific caller is specified. (ID), for example a 4-digit number, is input. This input ID is displayed on the display section 20.

Further, selection information as to whether or not to print out the incoming call information is also input from this operation unit 21.

Figure 3 shows processing flow 5 for achieving the selective transfer function.
An example of 0 is shown.

In order to operate the selective transfer function, the above-mentioned operation unit 21 is used to input the transfer destination and identification information of the specific caller by the person who should receive the callee information or the operator instructed by the person. , that is, the input IDs are respectively designated.

Roughly speaking, it is assumed that information on whether or not to print out the incoming call information has also been input.

It is also assumed that the caller's own identification information (incoming call ID) is inserted into the sending terminal identification signal (TSI) of the incoming call information.

Now, when this suppression program starts, the incoming call status is checked, and if one call is busy, the incoming call ID is read from the TSI signal (steps 51 and 52).

When the arrival εID matches the input ID, set a flag (
If not, it is turned off (steps 53, 54, 55), and both the state of this flag and the incoming call information are stored in the file number m of the RAM 13, which functions as a memory means ( Step 56).

This process continues until - degrees of incoming calls are received or terminated (step 57).

When the incoming call ends, the state of the memorized flag is checked, and if the flag is on, it means that the incoming ID matches the input ID, so in this case, the call is sent to the forwarding destination specified in advance. When the call processing is performed and the line is connected, the incoming call information is read out from the RAM 13 and can be sent (steps 58, 59, 60). Thereafter, the process shifts to printout processing (step 61).

When the flag is off, that is, when the incoming ID does not match the input ID or the incoming ID does not exist,
Immediately step 6 without going through steps 59 and 60.
The process will then proceed to step 1, the printout process.

If printout processing is set in step 61, all of the incoming call information stored in the RAM 13 is printed out, and then the incoming call information file is deleted (steps 62 and 63).

The file to be printed out is all of the incoming call information received during the transfer mode, regardless of the presence or absence of the incoming call ID.

However, it is also possible to selectively print out only files for which the input ID and incoming ID do not match and files for which there is no incoming ID.

If the printout process has not been set,
As is clear from step 61, only file deletion processing is performed.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, incoming call information of only a pre-specified caller can be transferred to a specific transfer destination.

Therefore, according to this method, only the information that the person needs is selectively transferred, so it is very convenient, and
Since there are only 11 unnecessary transfers, there is no need to waste communication costs, electricity costs, recording paper costs, etc., and this has the practical benefit of providing an economical facsimile machine.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a system diagram of the facsimile apparatus, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an example of achieving a selective transfer function. 11 ・ 13 ・ 18 ・ 20 ・ 21 ・ 30 ・ 32 ・ 34 ・ 36 ・ ・ CPU ・ RAM ・ Recording section ・ Display section ・ Operation section ・ Receiving means ・ Memory means ・ Transmitting means ・ Recording means 38 ・ 40 ・ 42 ・ ・・Identification information input means ・Incoming call identification information confirmation means ・Comparison means

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) An identification information input means for inputting the identification information of the other device, a confirmation means for confirming the identification information of the other device from the incoming call information, a comparison means for comparing the input identification information and the incoming identification information, and an incoming call information memory. and a means for transmitting incoming call information, wherein the facsimile apparatus is configured to transmit the incoming call information to a designated transfer destination when the input identification information and the incoming call identification information match.